Quad City Safety Blog

How to Pack Your First Aid Kit Like a Pro: Bacon's Safety Tip

Tips on Choosing Eye & Face Protection: Industrial Hazards & Solutions

The Tradesmen’s Ultimate Guide to Choosing Winter Work Gloves

4 Lifesaving Forklift Inspection Checklists Your Worksite Demands

Hazard Storage: 4 Questions Every Facility Manager Must Ask

How To Pack Your Winter Survival Kit: Bacon's Safety Tip

4 Tips To Winterize Your Work Site and Avoid Injuries

How To Pack Your PPE Kit: Bacon's Safety Tip

4 Ways Kitting Can Crank Up Your Safety Program

Gas Detection Devices: Don’t drive a minivan when you need a racecar (Safety Tales Podcast S3)

Tool Tethers & Dropped Objects: Rope and Duct Tape Don’t Cut It (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 10)

Quad City Safety Boots Revealed: The Right Shoes for Industrial Athletes

Job Site Rescue Plans: The difference between life and death (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 9)

What’s Your Facility’s Emergency Plan? (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 8)

Choosing The Right Flashlight: The Illuminating Truth: Bacon's Safety Tip

Disposable Clothing: Good For More Than Keeping You Clean (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 7)

Proactive VS Reactive: Reassess Your Safety Program Regularly (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 6)

Lockout Tagout - Avoiding Wood Chipper Mishaps (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 5)

When I Shoulda Wore A Respirator: A Trip Down Memory Lane (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 4)

The Blue Collar Guide To Work Boot Terminology

Improve Jobsite Safety Today With Foot Protection Facts!

Prevent These Common Slip, Trip and Fall Hazards In Your Facility

Launching our new boots only website! (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 3)

PPE Roundup (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 2)

Sorbents and Flammable Cabinets (Safety Tales Podcast S3 Episode 1)

When Nature Calls: What’s your facility’s emergency plan?: Bacon's Safety Tip

3 Ways to Prepare Your Facility When Disaster Strikes!

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Hard Hat Safety: Bacon's Safety Tip

Protect Your Noggin: Lessons in Hard Hat Safety

Heat Stress: Beating the PU Factor...and staying alive: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 22

10 Most Dangerous Jobs of 2018: Bacon Edition: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 21

Why Do You Hate Me, Little Bug? How to free your worksite from pests: Bacon's Safety Tip

Hi-Viz, dumb drivers and other construction site mishaps: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 20

Watch Out! Passive Fall Protection & Tool Tethers: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 19

Why arc flash is the most catastrophic thing at your workplace: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 18

Gravity ain’t your friend: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 16

DANGER Objects at Height: Fall Protection for Dropped Objects

PPE is the Last Line of Defense - Not First: Safety Tales Podcast Season 2 Episode 5

Safety Tales Podcast Season 2 Episode 4: How not to tick off your co-workers on the jobsite

Safety Tales Podcast Season 2 Episode 13: Choosing the right hand protection

Safety Tales Podcast Season 2 Episode 12: Are you the ‘Come On, Man!’ of Safety? 

Screw Baselines and Redefine Safety: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 11

Walking Work Surfaces Facts You Must Know: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 10

Stories of safety professionals who are hellbent on raising the bar: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 9

Avoid the Boom with Gas Calibration (and other good advice): Safety Tales Podcast Episode 8

Why Would A Safety Company Launch a Podcast?: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 7

Suck it up buttercup. Use the right sorbent!: Bacon's Safety Tip

Ear Protection Choices That Won't Make You Go "Huh": Safety Tales Podcast Episode 6

Choosing a Better Shoe for the Industrial Athlete: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 5

First Aid or Whiskey and Duct Tape in Construction?: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 4

Flammable Storage Works!: Bacon's Safety Tip

Filling the Gaps in Eye Protection: Safety Tales Episode 3

Growing Up Not Growing Old – PPE for Chronic vs. Acute Hazards: Safety Tales Episode 2

Don't Be A Fall Protection Failure: Safety Tales Podcast Episode 1

Should’ve worn a hard hat, you ain’t right in the head: Bacon's Safety Tip

Don't let fire-resistant clothing labels burn you: Bacon's Safety Tip

3 Easy Steps to Insert Your Ear Plugs (You’re doing it wrong!): Bacon's Safety Tip

Eyewash Stations vs Dump Bottles at Work: Bacon's Safety Tip

Protect your Piggies with Electric Hazard Foot Protection: Bacon's Safety Tip

How to Calculate Fall Clearance (It’s simple math!): Bacon's Safety Tip

Do You Know the Assigned Protection Factor Your Respirator Must Have?

Do you know what your safety glasses are protecting you from?: Bacon's Safety Tip

Confined Space and Gas Detection Terminology: Stop being scared and start being prepared

Foam-Backed Eye Protection: Don’t look at the arc!

Nuisance Level Organic Vapors: Get the stink out!

Confined Spaces: What are they and why are they so dangerous?

Gas Detection (Sniff out Gases & Snuff out Danger): Bacon's Safety Tip

Respirator Safety in 5 Easy Steps: Bacon's Safety Tip

Do your safety glasses have the right lenses for the job?: Bacon's Safety Tip

Gas monitor styles and knowing when to use them

Respirator Cartridge Mad Science! (color chart included)

Eye Protection: Are safety glasses overkill if you wear a face shield?

How to Choose the Right Safety Eye Wear: Bacon's Safety Tip

5 Steps to Keeping Your Respiratory Protection in Better Shape than You: Bacon's Safety Tip

Bump Test vs Calibration for Gas Detection Monitors: WTF is the Difference?

4 Easy Tips To Help You Fit Your Safety Eye Glasses

Shocking Truth on Respiratory Protection: Is Silica the New Asbestos?

Gas Monitor Calibration: Stop Sending Workers to the Pits of Hell

Head over Heels for Fall Protection: Bacon’s Safety Tip

Choosing the right cut-resistant gloves can't be half baked: Bacon’s Safety Tip

Group and Transfer Lockout, Don’t go home crispy!: Bacon’s Safety Tip

How to Choose the Right Fall Protection...and make your kid’s next t-ball game

Tips for Lockout Tagout Training and Inspection Requirements

Choosing Cut-Resistant Gloves: Keep Your Fingers On Your Hands!

Lockout Tagout & Emergency Padlock Removal: Bacon's Safety Tip

Matching Safety Gloves to Cut Risk: Bacon's Safety Tip

Clearing Up the Facts about Leading Edge Applications: Bacon's Safety Tip

Easy, Foolproof Guide to Selecting the Right Safety Gloves

OSHA Requirements for Lockout Tagout

Walking Working Surfaces and Fall Protection: Are You OSHA Ready?

You know the risks, so wear the darn safety glove: Bacon's Safety Tip

Lockout Tagout Shortcuts are Dumb...here's why: Bacon's Safety Tip

The Difference in Leading Edge vs. Regular Applications: Bacon's Safety Tip

Lockout Tagout Failures: When Shortcuts Could Kill

Fall Protection: Training Workers for Leading Edge Applications

Fall Protection: Connectors that Keep You from Crashing

Hand Protection: Know Your Cut Risk Hazard Before You Buy

Choosing PPE Correctly: Chronic versus Acute Hazards at Work

Safety Gloves & Chemicals: The Overlooked Safety Hazard

Respirator Fit Testing Guide: Bacon's Safety Tip

3 Flashlight Facts You Probably Didn't Know: Bacon's Safety Tip

Guide to Cut-Resistant Gloves and Cut Level Standards: Bacon's Safety Tip

Spills Happen: Why You Need Sorbents (or Diapers for Grown-Up Messes)

Filling the Gaps in Eye Protection with Sealed Safety Eyewear

Use Disposable Clothing at Work and Cover Your Assets

Rescue & Fall Protection...know your ABCDs: Bacon's Safety Tip

First Aid Supplies for Workers: Bacon's Safety Tip

Rescue Me: What You Need To Know About Fall Protection

GVS Elipse P100 NIOSH Respirator: Product Spotlight

Protective Footwear: The Right Safety Shoes for Industrial Athletes

Fire-Resistant Protective Clothing: The Good, the Bad and the Unsaid

Pyramex I-Force Safety Goggles: Product Spotlight

Fire-Resistant Clothing: Arc Flash and Flash Fire Basics

Noise Reduction Rating: Do you know the easy NRR equation for hearing protection?

Eyewash Station Basics: Saving Sight on Site

Gas Detection Devices in Confined Spaces: Bump Testing Saves Lives

Respirator Safety Basics: What the heck is a fit test?

Why Risk Assessment and Fall Protection Training is So Important

How First Aid Protects Employees and Your Bottom Line

Cut Resistant Gloves: Exceeding Compliance and Safety Standards

The Evolution of the Industrial Flashlight...and how not to go BOOM!

If I Calibrate My Instrument with Pentane, Will it Sense Methane as Well?

Avoid this #1 Cause of Confined Space Fatalities

Expert Tips on How to Pick The Best Gas Detector for a Confined Space

Your Pocket Guide to Quick Facts About Confined Spaces 

Quad City Safety WHBF Commercial

QCS was in the House! NAEC Annual Convention & Expo

Quad City Safety Superhero!

Quad City Safety: A Proud SMG Partner